Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Fellow at the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, September 1995 - September 1996

Funded Projects:

Research Project “Bauhaus Australia: Émigrés, Refugees and the Modernist Transformation of Education in Art, Architecture, and Design, 1930 to 1970,” together with Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), Harriet Enquist (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Andrew McNamara (QUT), and Ann Stephen (University of Sydney) Discovery Grant of the Australian Research Council, 2016-2018

Research Project “The Reception of German Modernism and the Bauhaus in Australian Art, Architecture, and Art Education between 1920 and 1960,” together with Andrew McNamara, Queensland University of Technology, projektbezogener Personenaustausch zwischen dem Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) und dem Australian Technology Network (ATN), 2012-2013

Andrew McNamara, Ann Stephen, and Isabel Wünsche, “Refugees and émigrés to Australia, 1930-1950: Three cases of light, colour and material studies in the Antipodes under the shadow of fascism and war,” in Migration Processes and Artistic Practices in Wartime, Lisbon: Artistic Studies Research Centre (CIEBA), Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (in preparation).

“Natural Phenomena and Universal Laws: The Organic School of the Russian Avant-garde,” in Natural-Unnatural: Organicity and the Avant-garde, ed. Paulina Kurc-Maj and Aleksandra Jach (Lodz: Museum Sztuki, 2017) (forthcoming).

“Transgressing National Borders and Artistic Styles: The November Group and the International Avant-Garde in Berlin during the Interwar Period,” in Art/Histories in Transcultural Dynamics, Late 19th to Early 21st Centuries, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2017, pp. 291-307.

“California Modernism, European Émigré Artists, and the Summer Sessions at Mills College in Oakland, California,” in Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles and Immigrants in Museums and Archives, ed. Amy Levin, London, New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 423-438.

“Exile, the Avant-garde, and Dada: Women Artists Active in Switzerland during the First World War,” in Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in her Circle, ed. Tanja Malycheva and Isabel Wünsche, Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi, 2016, pp. 48-67.

“Elena Guro: On the Crossroads between Symbolism, Organicism and Cubo-Futurism,” in International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, special issue Women Artists and Futurism, ed. Günter Berghaus, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 266-291.

International Board of the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

International Editorial Advisory Board of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

International Board of the journal Germanoslavia, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Organization of Conferences and Workshops (last five years):

“Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology in Soviet Film and Culture,” 4th Workshop of the Russian Art & Culture Group, Jacobs University, Bremen, September 2016 (together with Hanin Hannouch)

International Workshop “Peripheral Expressionisms: Artistic Networks and Cultural Exchange between Germany and its Eastern Neighbors in the Context of the European Avant-garde,” Jacobs University, Bremen, December 2015

“Russian Art: Building Bridges between East and West. In Memoriam Dmitry Sarabyanov,” 3rd Workshop of the Russian Art & Culture Group, Jacobs University, Bremen, November 2015 (together with Sebastian Borkhardt and Tanja Malycheva)

International Symposium “Collaborative Artist Networks in the Twentieth Century and Beyond,” Jacobs University, Bremen, July 2015